IBM Elastic Storage Server vs. OCI Virtual Desktop

Reliable data storage and access is a big challenge in AI applications and IBM ESS is a service you need to solve the problem. If you are building an AI service and you already use the IBM ecosystem for AI compute requirements, ESS can serve as an excellent software based storage solution. Integration with other platforms such as EMR/Databricks is still a challenge and should be improved.

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Considering Oracle VDI is not supported by Oracle anymore, and will not receive any future updates, I wouldn't recommend Oracle VDI for most scenarios. Unless your organization is under some strict contractual agreement or there is a feature in Oracle VDI that isn't supported in its modern successors/competitors (haven't come across a feature like that based on my experience), I would recommend using something like VMware Horizon.

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• Powerful processing power, literally support unlimited scale out storage capabilities
• well integrated and supported with multi flavor environment and file systems.
• Huge capacity with in a very reduced form factor of disks/enclosures

• Providing desktop operating system virtualization is way more manageable using this Oracle suite.
• It has a robust security infrastructure and provides great audit trails.

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• Integration and configuration need a bit more technical expertise which is I guess expected.
• There can be some improvement in integration with Legacy applications.

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• Frequent disconnects causing me to have to reboot my server.
• Can be laggy at times.
• Freezes regularly.

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From the end user's perspective the usability is not impacted at all.

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The easiest way to describe the performance is like this - when it is working, it works almost flawlessly. When it starts freezing, your day is going to get very interesting very quickly. As I have stated earlier, I used it for one purpose, and it did what I needed it to most of the time, but I did have issues with it.

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IBM ESS is optimized for AI and Big Data usecases while S3 is a general purpose storage solutions. EMR and Databricks have lakehouse/data warehousing solutions for distributed computing but are more optimized for just the big data pipelining solutions and not essentially for AI usecases, especially for inference, when you need to load model artifacts really quickly.

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VMware Horizon does everything that Oracle VDI is capable of doing and offers many more features, and unlike Oracle VDI, it is still receiving constant updates. Oracle VDI was a great solution for enterprise-level management of virtualized desktop when it was getting updates, but now that it won't be getting any, I would put it in the "outdated technology" category.

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• When the cost and price dynamics comes into account, we have replaced age old traditional arrays with almost negligible cost with ESS
• able to extend the capabilities of global teams to work and share their experiences and knowledge with other teams.

• Pricing Models were harsh to begin with, so we invested more money on the license than we needed to.
• Due to all of the laggy, buggy, and crashing interfaces, our administrators spent considerable additional time working on simple operations.
• We missed out on many advanced features that Oracle VDI's competitors were rolling out, so we couldn't benefit from them.

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